The pickle that Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself in with Trump nominating three House Republicans for administration positions is being compounded by Florida’s leisurely pace for filling congressional vacancies, Politico reports.
No empty Sunshine State seat has been filled in fewer than 148 days this century, and while there are hopes of replacing Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz faster than that, Florida law suggests that will be difficult.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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